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Kudos to you sir!

Great Interview!

 

Nice to see his collection up close....

 

Thank You!

 

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Also, to answer your question at the end of the video, I would love to see interviews with writers about their fountain pen collections--or any pens, for that matter! The ones I've heard of who use fountain pens (Orhan Pamuk, J. Robert Lennon, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King) may be hard to get hold of, though.

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We were running a bit long. I knew he had a meeting he was late for already. His assistant was pacing around outside the office and so I made an attempt at "just one more"...but he wanted to show more. So at that point I thought, okay...if you're late it's now on you, not me! :-)

 

 

Haha, good call!

 

I really got the sense that he genuinely wanted to sit and talk pens for a good while. Maybe he will show up for more show and tell at some time.

 

Thanks for this video, something different and very interesting to watch. I look forward to seeing if you manage to do something similar with someone else.

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David- thanks for this interview, it was really good. Keep up the great work.

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Tyson's excitement about how pens both express and can be used to express ideas was so visible. Thank you for this contribution, and for the thought you're investing in stories that are fascinating to the pen community.

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Hey, David,

 

Did he buy the Jupiter you showed him? I mean, he is a serious pen addict, after all.

 

Enjoy,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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I thoroughly enjoyed the interview.

 

I'm wondering whether or not to participate in the drawing.

 

Inscribed copy sure sounds enticing.

 

Probably the only space themed item (or some semblance of it) is my retro 51 Albert Einstein mechanical pencil. It takes an oddball lead size and it's too thick, but I felt I couldn't pass it up when I saw it at a pen store in Berkeley.

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Not an entrant. But I'm gonna send the URL to my husband. And keep my fingers crossed that he doesn't fast forward over the pens part.... :rolleyes:

Thanks for putting up the link. Really cool video. I keep hoping that someday I'll be in NYC, and run into Neil DeGrasse Tyson at Fountain Pen Hospital. Because he was a cool guy even before I found out he liked Fps (and even though he demoted Pluto...).

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The mark of a good interviewer, David, is that he just gives his subject room to talk, and you did an excellent job all the way through.

 

At the same time, Tyson is a big talker, God bless him, and he knows all the lingo about his hobby. Feynman was like that, apparently. Brilliant guys get bigly into the details of anything they do.

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Thank you for sharing the interview, David! I've always found Neil Degrasse Tyson to be fascinating, and watching him talk about fountain pens was no exception!

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David, wonderful video and actually a great channel. You have done and are continuing to do amazing work in the short time you had your channel going.

 

I actually ran into Neil during one of the shows at Fountain Pen Hospital. In fact the black OMAS he showed was the pen he and I were discussing whether it be worth getting. I am glad he got it:) He is a VERY enthusiastic pen user.

 

I hope you don't mind if I gave you a suggestion. I don't know how experienced you are in the art of interviewing? One of the things you should try is to build on the idea of the interviewee to let them bring you along on their train of thought.

 

Otherwise awesome job.

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Just finished watching this... What a great interview! You have to love NdGT's enthusiasm. Thanks so much for dreaming this up, and then doing such a great job of putting it all together.

Love your reviews and this one is definitely a highlight!

 

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Thanks! There was a point where I felt we should wrap it up (he was on a tight schedule, and his assistant was hovering outside his office), but he wanted to keep going. He is definitely passionate about his pens.

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The mark of a good interviewer, David, is that he just gives his subject room to talk, and you did an excellent job all the way through.

 

At the same time, Tyson is a big talker, God bless him, and he knows all the lingo about his hobby. Feynman was like that, apparently. Brilliant guys get bigly into the details of anything they do.

Thanks...appreciate it. While there are a dozen little nit picky things I would change about the production, overall I was pleased with how it turned out.

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Hey, David,

 

Did he buy the Jupiter you showed him? I mean, he is a serious pen addict, after all.

 

Enjoy,

He did not. I didn't press the matter too much, though. Just thought it would be something that appealed to him.

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Great job, David! It's a shame Classic Pens didn't give you the Juipter to present to Dr. Tyson as a gift. Great fun to watch!

"Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts." - Patrick Rothfuss

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He's certainly a Type-A guy - in every aspect of his life I would guess. Thanks for pulling this off - it was fun to watch!

 

I'd love to see a Rick Wakeman interview if one could somehow pull that one off!

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He's certainly a Type-A guy - in every aspect of his life I would guess. Thanks for pulling this off - it was fun to watch!

 

I'd love to see a Rick Wakeman interview if one could somehow pull that one off!

 

Does Rick Wakeman use FPs?

All I know is that years ago I read an interview with him after he left Yes. He said that the difference between him and the rest of the group was that they were mostly all vegetarians, and would be happy with giant balloons of mushrooms over them on the stage -- while he'd be having a balloon of a giant cheeseburger....

Oh, and apparently he did the piano arrangement for Cat Stevens for "Morning Has Broken".

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